I'd like to see more choices for users to make about performance optimization.

Hi Photoshop Beta Team. Thank you for all your hard work and improving and evolving the product.

I've been using Adobe for a while now and have been keeping an eye on the community (not just the official Adobe community, but other community sites like reddit, facebook, discord, and blogs).

And I don't know if this is actually possible, but I would like to suggest one thing.

Can you give users more control over the "performance" aspects of Photoshop?

Well... when I say this, I'm not just talking about things like setting RAM quotas, enabling/disabling some features.

For example, those of us who have been using Photoshop for a while already feel it. that it's gotten a lot heavier.(Of course, Photoshop 2023 feels more optimized than 2022 and 2021.)

However, I think the golden age of Photoshop performance optimization ended with version 2015.5, then 2018-2019, and finally 21.0.3.

Opinions may vary on this, as some newer versions are better for certain tasks (Export).

But when I'm actually "working on something in real time", the old version is faster, and I can focus on my work without worrying about the settings and speed of Photoshop.
But just a few years ago, I always had to take into account the condition of Photoshop, I had to fight a lot of bugs and a lot of delays (this is ongoing).

So, if it is difficult to improve the speed of this, I wondered if it would be possible to improve the speed by disabling some features of Photoshop 2023 and installing it.

(Something like Font, Neural Filter, Sky filter like that)
(Such As~ Photo2023LITE version...?)

I don't know, if it's not related to the speed at which Photoshop is actually running, I'd like to see it optimized in some other way.

A lot of people ask me, "Why is Photoshop so slow?" But if I remember correctly, they've been asking since 2019, after the 2020 engine change.
Photoshop was never meant to be a heavy program, it was meant to help artists focus on their own work.

It's so commonplace now that when someone asks in the community, "Why is Photoshop so slow?" the answer is, "It's just the way it is in newer versions. If you're using 2020, or if you don't need the new features in 2020 and beyond, 2016, or even better, CS6 if you have an original license, is a very good choice." The answer is almost always the same.

I've seen those questions and answers since 2020, and now it's 2023.
I don't think it needs to be repeated anymore...
We don't know what the future holds for Adobe Photoshop and the Photoshop Beta Team, but we do know that we'll be bringing new AI technologies to the table and making things easier for you. That's great!
I love it!
But most new users will find Photoshop to be slow and heavy before they even try the new technology, so they will feel uncomfortable before they can pursue their dreams, and long-time users will notice and report a negative impact on their workflow with every update.

So I think the first improvement and development goal for Photoshop and the Photoshop Beta team should be to optimize for the golden age of Photoshop, the fastest and most complete version of Photoshop. (Or, if there is a benefit to releasing a separate Lite version or disabling some features within Photoshop, offer it as an option.)

I am a very old fan of Adobe and I love their products, because I am a Retoucher by profession and I am always grateful to them for giving me something that I can never do without.
I'm worried that my post will come across as too negative.
It's really written with love.

Thank you.